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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ipissimus" data-source="post: 3453861" data-attributes="member: 41514">Day 19 - Patchwall 591 CYI've spent the last few days setting my affairs in order. Celene's boarder now stands between myself and my mother like a great wall, better than any battlements, and so I feel more at ease. Unless she wishes me dead I have little fear that her agents shall accost me now that I am outside her significant political clutches.I caused quite the stir at the local banking house when I began pouring a seemingly endless supply of gold out of my extradimensional bag. Several thousand gold pieces is a paltry sum compared to what exchanges hands between the merchant's guilds and other business. So much, in fact, that it places me in very real danger from the local thieves if they can work up the courage to try me. Word of my powers seems to have reached the local populace, as well as my new association with the merchant's guild.It behoves me to invest some of my gold, at least that which I can afford after I purchase several new spell scrolls, good ink, a second spellbook and replenish the miscelaneous sundries that one uses incidently on the road. It comes to chance that the Guildmaster, as a reward for saving his daughter, has gifted me with real estate, an Inn that currently stands delapedated and useless at the edge of town. I had a builder assess the construction and he declaired it basically sound, while research of my own indicates that fixing the sturucture, resupplying and manning the Inn for business will cost a total of 2000 gold orbs.I've ordered construction to begin today and hired an Innkeeper with experience in the work to oversee the project. As long as the investment turns a balance I will be happy... though I will audit the business personally from time to time. I do not detect a hint of malice in my hireling's thoughts, which is just as well. My staff will be payed well and kept happy but greed and betrayal will be punished swiftly.I have made firm friends with the Sheriff of the region after my help with the murder. He is good, law abiding, folk and I think he believes that I will be a stabilizing force in the region. I revealed to him the Goddess that I worship and he was intrigued by my faith. Perhaps, in time, he may convert however I do not preach to him or others the path that I have undertaken. Those who come to the Goddess do so freely and of their own will. We are becoming friends, I think, but time will tell on that score as well. Some of my darker research may alarm such simple harvest folk, my preserved black dragon hatchlings are a novelty but if they realized that such magic could preserve and even animate their own dead... it would be best they did not discover this.I have heard many rumors of skirmishes with Orcs, though most of the battles seem to be occuring close to the Lortmil Mountains. It seems I was wrong to dismiss these bandits as Pomarj agents, reliable reports indicate that this is some holy Orc crusade whipped up by some Warlod claiming to be the chosen one of Gruumish.Once my affairs are in order here, I will travel further west as guard to a merchant caravan, it seems that the Guildmaster's daughter will take no other with her on the journey to the capital, Enstad. I have mixed feelings about the visit, the elves have the most annoying habit of being cordial to humans in the same manner humans are to dogs. If I wished more of that sort of condascending prattle, I'd have stayed home or joined the Scarlet Brotherhood. I estimate that it would take me a few months before my anger boiled into a murderous rampage in the latter two cases, let us hope that he Elves can manage to be more civil.</blockquote>

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